1994 in France explained

Events from the year 1994 in France.

Incumbents

• President: François Mitterrand
• Prime Minister: Édouard Balladur

Events

• 20 March – Cantonales Elections held.
• 24 March – Cantonales Elections held.
• 20 April – Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of seven Jews at Rillieux-la-Pape in June 1944, becoming the first French national to be charged with crimes against humanity committed during the German occupation of France in the Second World War.^[1]
• 6 May – The Channel Tunnel is opened by President François Mitterrand and Elizabeth II in two separate ceremonies held in Calais and Folkestone.^[2]
• 12 June – European Parliament election held in France.
• 30 June – Airbus A330 test flight crash in Toulouse, killing 3 crew and 4 passengers.
• 4 August – Toubon Law enacted.
• 3 November – A French magazine publishes photo of President François Mitterrand's secret daughter.
• 13 November – The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
• 7 December – L'étrange Noël de monsieur Jack on French Movie Theater
• 24 December – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked in Algiers airport.
• 26 December – Air France aircraft is flown to Marseille and stormed by the GIGN, 4 hijackers and 3 others were killed.

Sport

• 2 July – Tour de France begins. Two stages take place in England.
• 3 July – Michael Schumacher wins the French Grand Prix held at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.^[3]
• 24 July – Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

Births

• 6 January – Margaux Pinot, judoka^[4]
• 19 January – Adrien Hunou, footballer
• 23 January – Wesley Jobello, footballer
• 13 February – Axel Reymond, Marathon swimmer
• 3 March – Abdoulaye Touré, footballer
• 27 May – Aymeric Laporte, footballer
• 13 June – Guy-Elphège Anouman, sprinter
• 14 June – Romain Habran, footballer
• 17 July – Benjamin Mendy, footballer
• 3 August – Corentin Tolisso, footballer
• 17 August – Tiémoué Bakayoko, footballer
• 15 September – Raphael Severe, clarinet player
• 27 October – Kurt Zouma, footballer
• 8 November – Damien Dussaut, footballer

Deaths

January to March

• 2 January – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, fourth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (born 1912)
• 15 January – Gabriel-Marie Garrone, cardinal (born 1901)
• 22 January – Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director and mime artist (born 1910)
• 24 January – Yves Navarre, writer (born 1940)
• 27 January – Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (born 1907)
• 30 January – Pierre Boulle, novelist (born 1912)
• 11 February – Max Leognany, artist (born 1913)
• 16 February – François Marty, Roman Catholic crdinal (born 1904)
• 24 February – Jean Sablon, singer and actor (born 1906)
• 9 March – Paul Dubreil, mathematician (born 1904)
• 28 March – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (born 1909)
• 31 March – Henri Gouhier, philosopher, historian of philosophy and literary critic (born 1898)

April to June

• 1 April – Robert Doisneau, photographer (born 1912)
• 3 April – Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (born 1926)
• 9 April – Marcel Ichac, alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (born 1906)
• 14 April – Jean Joyet, painter (born 1919)
• 17 April – Gaston Charlot, chemist (born 1904)
• 20 April – Jean Carmet, actor (born 1920)
• 29 April – Marcel Bernard, tennis player (born 1914)
• 16 May – Alain Cuny, actor (born 1908)
• 19 May – Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist, theologian (born 1912)
• 3 June – Puig Aubert, rugby league footballer (born 1925)
• 14 June – Marcel Mouloudji, singer and actor (born 1922)
• 16 June – Bernard Moitessier, yachtsman and author (born 1925)
• 27 June – Jacques Berthier, composer (born 1923)

July to September

• 8 July – Christian-Jaque, filmmaker (born 1904)
• 17 July – Jean Borotra, tennis player (born 1898)
• 19 August – Louis de Froment, conductor (born 1921)
• 16 September – Albert Decourtray, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1923)
• 23 September – Madeleine Renaud, actress (born 1900)
• 30 September – André Michel Lwoff, microbiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 (born 1902)^[5]

October to December

• 15 October – Jean Dasté, actor and theatre director (born 1904)
• 21 October – Benoît Régent, actor (born 1953)
• 18 November – Henri Choussat, gerontologist (born 1906)^[6]
• 30 November
  • Guy Debord, Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker (born 1931)
  • Louis Gabrillargues, soccer player (born 1914)
• 7 December – Pierre Cloarec, cyclist (born 1909)
• 13 December – Antoine Pinay, politician and Prime Minister of France (born 1891)
• 18 December – Roger Apéry, mathematician (born 1916)
• 25 December – Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (born 1907)

Full date unknown

• Raymond Molinier, Trotskyist (born 1904)

See also

• List of French films of 1994

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frenchman Convicted of Crimes Against the Jews in '44. The New York Times. Alan. Riding. 20 April 1994. 3 May 2020.
2. Web site: 1994: President and Queen open Chunnel. BBC On This Day. BBC. 3 May 2020.
3. 1994 French Grand Prix race report – two into three won't go. Motorsport. 70. 8. David. Tremayne. 808–815. August 1994. 3 May 2020.
4. Web site: Olympedia – Margaux Pinot . www.olympedia.org . 14 May 2023.
5. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 . NobelPrize.org . 2 January 2022.
6. Web site: CHOUSSAT (Henri). www2.biusante.parisdescartes.fr . 9 November 2013.